Improved water-cooler and refrigerator



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED MURDEN AND HENRY L. COOPER, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO THEMSELVES AND FRANCIS WARNER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED .WATER-COOLER AND REFRIGERATOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 71,899, dated December 10, 1867.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, ALFRED MURDENand HENRY L. COOPER, of New Haven, iu the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented anew Improvement in Water-Coo1ers and Refrigerators; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing` and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents a vertical central section.

This invention relates to the construction of a combined water-cooler and refrigerator and it consists in the arrangement ot' a central icereceptacle surrounded by a cylinder to form a waterspace around the receptacle, which said water-space serves as the packing around the ice-receptacle, and the said outer cylinder extending above the ice-receptacle, and a cover arranged to close the ice-receptacle and space around the said cover, forming the bottom of a chamber or refrigerator above the ice, and the said chamber provided with a cover.

To enable others to construct our improvement, we will proceed to describe the same as illustrated in the accompanying` drawing.

A is the ice-receptacle, which is of cylindrical form, resting upon the bottom B; C, the cuter cylinder, of larger dimensions than the inner cylinder, A, so as to form aspace, D, around the inner cylinder, A. The outer cylinder extends up above theinnercylinder,and the inner cylinder, A, and space D around it are closely covered by a cover, E, which said cover E forms the bottom of a chamber, F, and the said chamber is completed by acover, Gr, fitting closely into thecylinder C. A cock, H, communicates with the space Dand a cock, I, with the inner cylinder.

The receptacle A is lilled, or partially so, withice and the space D with Water; then the cover E placed thereon. The Waterin the space D serves as a packing for the preservation of the ice, while at the saine time the ice reduces the temperature of the Water to the desired coolness for drinking, the water in the space D being drawn through the cock H, and the waterin theice-receptacleis drawn out through the cock I.

The chamber F is used for the preservation ot' articles as a refrigerator, the ice in the receptacle serving to maintain a low degree ot' temperature in the chamber.

Having therefore thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangenientof the cylinderA andouter cylinder, C, so as to form a water-space, l), and combined with covers E and Gr so as to form a chamber, F, above the water-space D and icecylinder A, and so that the cover E forms the bottom ot' and the cover Gr the top of the said chamber, in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

ALFRED MURDEN. HENRY L. COOPER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. SHUMWAY, A. J. TIBBrrs. 

